derangement

noun

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1
as in dementia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life given powerful drugs to treat his derangement

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2
as in disruption
an act or instance of the order of things being disturbed the derangement of the carefully organized event by a single freak accident

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  1. dementia
  2. disruption
  3. insanity
  4. disturbance
  5. hysteria
  6. madness
  7. schizophrenia
  8. instability
Noun
  • His wife, Rosalynn, who had been diagnosed with dementia in early 2023, briefly entered hospice herself at age 96 before dying on Nov. 19, 2023.
    Marty Steinberg, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Rosalynn, who was also in hospice care at their Georgia home following a diagnosis of dementia, died in November 2023.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of dementia
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  • Indeed, by the closing months of 1999, the consensus in the IT sector and government was that Y2K would be a bump in the road, with disruptions no worse than a winter storm.
    Zachary Loeb / Made by History, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
  • And, as with all disruption, both opportunities and pitfalls are abundant on the road ahead.
    Martin Gutmann, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of disruption
Noun
  • Read more Luigi Mangione case has 'Highest risk' of jury nullification—legal analyst Will Luigi Mangione's insanity defense work?
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Einstein never said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of insanity
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  • On June 4, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police were called to a domestic disturbance in the 1300 block of South Pershing Avenue, the same home where Kayden was found dead six months later.
    Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Warming temperatures allow tropical disturbances to draw more power from the oceans.
    Luena Rodriguez-Feo Vileira, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of disturbance
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  • Ellen is a more passive counterpart to Thomasin, the teenage heroine played by fellow big-eyed blonde Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch, in that she’s also been pathologized by the strictures of her era, her psychic sensitivities interpreted by those around her as signs of hysteria or mental illness.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Depp, on the other hand, is playing less a character than an acrobatic embodiment of female hysteria.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2024
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  • Ford, in what only can be described a bout of corporate madness, kept them.
    Jeremy White, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Medusa was known in ancient Greece for petrifying anyone who dared to look her in the eye, and has been seen as a personification of madness.
    Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of madness
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  • Researchers took note and now, around a dozen clinical trials are in the works, testing the diet's effect on mental illness, including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and depression.
    Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Is There No Place on Earth For Me? — a feature Turturro writes, directs and stars in — looks into the mind of Sylvia Frumkin, a woman trapped in the grips of schizophrenia, as her family struggles to navigate the maze of the mental health system during a blackout in New York.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of schizophrenia
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  • Frequent wars or economic disruptions over decades signal instability.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The area continues to grapple with instability even after Assad's ousting.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of instability
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